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Opaque Social Instruments: A Cultural Evolutionary Approach to Pleistocene Symbolic Artifacts

Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Prehistoric “symbolic” artifacts remain incompletely explained by semiotic models, which emphasize representational meaning but offer limited insight into how such materials emerged and spread across Pleistocene populations. This article develops a cultural evolutionary framework that reconceives early ornaments, pigments, figurines, and ...
Corijn van Mazijk
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"Two tribes": Handaxe shape variation shows distinct regional cultural groups in southeastern Britain between 424 000 and 374 000 BP

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 602-621, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines regional and chronological variations in Acheulean handaxe morphology during Marine Isotope Stage 11 (c. 425–365 ka BP) in Britain. Using a data set of 737 handaxes from 13 securely dated sites in East Anglia and the Thames Valley, we apply three‐dimensional geometric morphometric analysis to examine morphological ...
Mark White, Frederick Foulds, Aaron Rawlinson, Ceri Shipton, Rob Davis, Nick Ashton   +5 more
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Drawing Animals in the Paleolithic: The Effect of Perspective and Abbreviation on Animal Recognition and Aesthetic Appreciation

Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 18, Issue 2, April 2026.
Abstract The majority of Pleistocene figurative cave art in Western Europe consists of line drawings depicting large herbivores from the side view, and outlines were sometimes abbreviated to the head‐neck‐dorsal line. It is often assumed that the side view was used because it facilitates animal recognition compared to other views, and that abbreviated ...
Murillo Pagnotta, Mateusz Psujek, Larissa M. Straffon, Riccardo Fusaroli, Kristian Tylén   +4 more
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Stone Age Archaeological Sites in the Landscape. Monumentalisation of Sites on the South Korea Example

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Archaeologica, 2019
The aim of the article is to show selected ways of presenting Stone Age archaeological sites in the landscape. The forms of prehistoric archaeological sites monumentalisation in South Korea served as an example here.
Marcel Bartczak
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Reframing the Chipped Edge: Combining Materiality, Ontology, and Embodiment to Rethink Stone Tool‐Making and Human Conscious Behavior in the Paleolithic Past

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT Combining different theoretical frameworks can lead to new insights into the role of material things in shaping human experience in the Paleolithic period. This paper first presents a historical review of three theoretical approaches in archaeology, anthropology, and the philosophy of mind: Material culture and materiality studies, the ...
Bar Efrati
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Insights into the Middle Pleistocene fauna of South Africa: Zooarchaeology, stable isotopes and dating of Pniel 6

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 6, Page 1120-1139, August 2025.
ABSTRACT The Florisian Land Mammal Age (FLMA; 773‐12 ka) is characterised by specialist, often extinct, grazing as well as wetland species, many of which are no longer present in the southern African interior. Middle Pleistocene FLMA faunal assemblages are rare, particularly those associated with artefacts, limiting reconstruction of environmental ...
S. Sophia Politt, Helena Pribliczki, Marc R. Dickinson, Nils Andersen, Abenicia Henderson, David Morris, Cheryl A. Makarewicz, Kirsty Penkman, Michaela Ecker   +8 more
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Dating the Middle Palaeolithic of Fumane Cave by the combined ESR/U‐series method

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 862-875, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Fumane Cave, located in Northern Italy, is a major prehistoric site for understanding late Neandertal and early modern human behaviours. The cave contains a 12‐m‐thick stratigraphic sequence of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic layers, which have yielded a number of flint artefacts and faunal remains.
Christophe Falguères, Giulia Gruppioni, Jean Jacques Bahain, Jean Michel Dolo, Marco Peresani   +4 more
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Examining the distribution of Middle Paleolithic Nubian cores relative to chert quality in southern (Nejd, Dhofar) and south‐central (Duqm, Al Wusta) Oman

Geoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 1, January/February 2025.
Abstract Lithic raw material properties are often invoked to explain the presence, absence, form, or ontogeny of Paleolithic stone tools. Here, we explore whether the frequency of the Middle Paleolithic Nubian core form and core‐reduction systems co‐varies with toolstone quality in two neighboring regions in Oman: the southern region of Nejd, Dhofar ...
Metin I. Eren, Michelle R. Bebber, David Singer, Chloe Pearson, Joseph D. Ortiz, Briggs Buchanan, Amir Beshkani, Dominik Chlachula, Rudolf Dellmour, Roman Garba, Anthony E. Marks, Vitaly Usyk, Jeffrey I. Rose   +12 more
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Exploring the Complexity and Structure of Acheulean Stoneknapping in Relation to Natural Language

PaleoAnthropology, 2014
The intuition that there is a homology between sequenced action during stoneknapping and syntax in language is long-standing, but rarely explicitly analyzed.
Robert Allen Mahaney
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Stone toolmaking energy expenditure differs between novice and expert toolmakers

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 185, Issue 4, December 2024.
Comparison of energy expenditure values during a stone toolmaking experiment between experts and novices. Abstract Objectives This study investigates the energetic costs associated with Oldowan‐style flake production and how skill differences influence these costs.
Justin Pargeter, Adela Cebeiro, Stephanie B. Levy   +2 more
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